NAPOWRIMO--2024- A POEM A DAY ---30 POEMS IN 30 DAYS~~~Ode to the Kaangrri ~~~

  

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own ode celebrating an everyday object.’

Ode to The Kaangrri 
 (everyday heating utensil-to beat the cold, used in Kashmir)

O Kaangarri, O sweet Kaangarri'

Thou empty cold Queen of Energy'

Unique symbol of Kashmiri Identity

Any Historian may relate thy graceful

warmth '

But why art thou so cold and quiet

"What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape

Of deities or mortals, or of both"

What Attic shape -

under the arm 

you drove away fear

and kept one warm' 

yet now a touch of sadness I feel

Kangri O Kaangarri' How sweet Thou art'

what sunny winters thou hast seen

in snowy mountains clear streams, valleys green,

I long for, have never been nor ...but no, will be

One day we shall return -

'Karyo Manzar jigras jaye shamno

maa e masha ni -Mere Watan'

We will return to your heaven'

O Kaangarri' Thou art silent in grief I know

Your heart has shed all tears and so is dry

But we shall not any more cry

We have the Black Gold, Great Nature's gift'

That will bring you back to the shift

Thou art eternally blessed , a treasure to keep

No one may steal no one may weep

For '"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all 

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

O' sweet Kaangarri' thou has thy beauty too

I have loved you' preserved you, I shall always love you'

Note:

A Kaangarri' may be described as a clay pot enclosed in a basket made of willow rushes,filled with hot charcoal.Used in winters to keep oneself warm for long hours, a Kaangarri is a mobile object , an excellent heating device and a unique invention by the skillful people of Kashmir.